Alice keeps pressuring Bob to go to her piano recital, but Bob really doesn't want to go. Flustered, Bob tells her that he can't go to the recital because The International Flea Circus is in town that night. Alice knows he is lying not because an International Flea Circus sounds ridiculous, but because she is a big fan of the circus and knows that it isn't due in town for another six months.

In ''Mr. Deeds" (the Adam Sandler version), reporter Babe Bennett tells the title character an obviously phony story about her childhood in Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa while doing an undercover report. What she doesn't expect, of course, is that there really is such a place, that Deeds would end up taking her there, and that it's almost exactly as she described it.

An episode of iCarly had the gang send annoying girl Mandy off in search of the fictional foreign snack "Fladoodles." Thinking they got her out of their hair for a while, Mandy returns with the actual snack chips, in three different flavors.

In an episode of Recess, when the gang are trying to get rid of a kid they think is a jinx, they give him a fake treasure map and send him on a wild goose chase. A minute later he comes back with a treasure chest.

In an episode of Recess, when the gang are trying to get rid of a kid they think is a jinx, they give him a fake treasure map and send him on a wild goose chase. A minute later he comes back with a treasure chest.

Film example: In Mr. Deeds (the Adam Sandler version), reporter Babe Bennett tells the title character an obviously phony story about her childhood in Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa while doing an undercover report. What she doesn't expect, of course, is that there really is such a place, that Deeds would end up taking her there, and that it's almost exactly as she described it.

I definitely think that they are related. But i also feel like this is mostly a comedy tropes. The lie or made up excuse is supposed to be ridiculous or outlandish. The excuse is supposed to sound made up but the fact that it is actually true is another facet of the humor.

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